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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Blogging Blunders
Paul Gillin has posted several items on business blogging blunders. Here is the first, with links to the others. An exemplary read for anyone starting an external...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flu Patients Blogging and Reporting
A good overview of infodemiology, or using information on the Internet to report and track disease outbreaks. Blogs are good, but faster and simpler social networks...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Intercepts Used to Convict Liquid Bombers
Three of the UK liquid bombers were convicted Monday. NSA-intercepted e-mail was introduced as evidence in the trial: The e-mails, several of which have been ...
From My Biased Coin
Research Labs "vs." Academia
Muthu points to a blog entry (by Danah Boyd of Microsoft Research) on research labs vs. academia. It's a good read -- especially for graduate students thinking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mike2.0 on Open Methodologies
Brenda Somich sends along information about MIKE2.0. It's a non-profit community for sharing information on IM topics with other industry professionals. Theya...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Next Generation Business Intelligence
Business intelligence (BI) is something I have worked on for years. For executives and for use by the individual employee. Recently BI has discovered well-integrated...
From Schneier on Security
The Global Illicit Economy
Interesting video: A new class of global actors is playing an increasingly important role in globalization: smugglers, warlords, guerrillas, terrorists, gangs,...
From Putting People First
Social science meets technology in next-generation jobs
Gartner says the bridge to the future with social networks will be with roles with origins in the social sciences, reports eWeek. Better understanding of the Web...
From Putting People First
Awareness is everything
Jamais Cascio argues on Fast Company that, as our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms...
From Putting People First
Organizational Culture 101: a practical how-to for interaction designers
“To navigate the landscape of organizational culture interaction designers need a set of practical tools, language & knowledge drawn from the world of cultural...
From Putting People First
Josephine Green and Ezio Manzini featured in Philips magazine
From pyramids to pancakes The era of elitism, top-down management and deterministic ideals is over. We are now living in an age of social innovation and sustainability...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 7
Congress has returned from its August recess. September 10 Meeting: The Consumer Advisory Committee of the Federal Communications Commission will meet to discuss...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter E-Commerce Goals
From AdAge: P&G sets 4 Billion E-Commerce Goals. Increases have been suggested for years, this seems to a a very big and bold move forward. ' ... E-commerce has...
From My Biased Coin
ESA 2009
ESA is being held at the IT University of Copenhagen. It's a wonderful, fairly new university building, with one strange problem -- a severe shortage of plug outlets...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Summer is Over. I Know Because I am Wearing Shoes Again
Last year was the first year in our Great Transition, from teaching computer application courses to integrating computer science concepts into all of our courses...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Aims for 360 Degree Insight
From the World Advertising Research Center (WARC): P&G Aims for 360 Degree Consumer Insight. Not too much very new here, but a restatement of an ongoing development...
From Putting People First
OPEN digital experience design: a strategic, trends-based approach
A recent article by Nita Rollins on DMI’s Digital Management Review: “As the Web has matured, brand relationships have become ever more dynamic. Nita Rollins outlines...
From Putting People First
All learning processes can be supported through mobile phones
Abhijit Kadle explains how the mobile phone can easily be used as a learning tool: “Like all communication and computing devices, mobile phones can be used to learn...
From The Eponymous Pickle